{"id":26963,"date":"2018-09-13T09:42:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T09:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/?p=26963"},"modified":"2018-09-13T09:42:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T09:42:55","slug":"cheesegrater-2-gets-the-green-light-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/cheesegrater-2-gets-the-green-light-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheesegrater 2 gets the green light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-26955\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/nCheesegrater-2-1809.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"284\" \/>Plans to build a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.steelconstruction.info\/Multi-storey_office_buildings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tower block<\/a> dubbed Cheesegrater 2 have been given the green light. The 56-storey development will on completion be the third tallest building in the City of London.<\/p>\n<p>The City\u2019s planning committee has approved plans submitted by Hong Kong-listed real estate giant Lai Sun Development Company to develop the new commercial landmark at 100 Leadenhall Street, which is being called Cheesegrater 2 because of its similarity to the iconic skyscraper situated at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.steelconstruction.info\/The_Leadenhall_Building,_London\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">122 Leadenhall Street<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Situated in the eastern cluster of the financial district, the new 263m-tall building will include two podium terraces and a public viewing gallery on the top two floors.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Hayward, Chairman of the City of London Corporation\u2019s Planning and Transportation Committee, said: \u201cI\u2019m delighted that we have approved the latest addition to the City\u2019s growing office district.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeading to a church dating back to the 12th Century, this development demonstrates the City\u2019s distinctive ability to house the old and new side-by-side, while becoming more accessible to creative workers and members of the public.<br \/>\n\u201cMore than ever we are seeing businesses make location decisions based on the quality of built environment and public realm that they can offer their employees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new skyscraper was designed by award-winning architects Skidmore, Owings &amp; Merrill &#8211; the company behind the Broadgate Tower, One World Trade Centre and the Burj Khalifa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plans to build a tower block dubbed Cheesegrater 2 have been given the green light. The 56-storey development will on completion be the third tallest building in the City of London. The City\u2019s planning committee has approved plans submitted by Hong Kong-listed real estate giant Lai Sun Development Company to develop the new commercial landmark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[799,309,2674],"class_list":["post-26963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-city-of-london","tag-commercial","tag-tower"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/nCheesegrater-2-1809.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3WsLP-70T","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26964,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions\/26964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}